Webinar: The PWA story at Norwegian Professional Football League

About this webinar
We have an exciting lineup for this webinar. First is a non-tech session by Thomas Torjusen from the NPFL, then we dive into the technology with Egil Fujikawa Nes from Seeds. Techies can join both sessions and business users will probably be happy with the first.

The Norwegian Professional Football League (NPFL) has been an Enonic customer since 2016 when they launched their media platform based on the Enonic content platform. Since then they have improved constantly and are now innovating further with progressive web apps.

What is PWA?
A progressive web app (PWA) is a website that looks and behaves as if it is a mobile app. PWAs are built to take advantage of native mobile device features, without requiring the end user to visit an app store, make a purchase and download software locally.

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09:00
Welcome

09:05
All in for Progressive Web Apps!
by Thomas Torjusen, Head of Media and CDO @ Norwegian Professional Football League

Why go through all the hassle with multiplatform app development, app store queues, and expensive maintenance for 41 football clubs, when you can run it all from a single media platform?

Thomas will talk about NPFL's digital initiatives, why they decided to adopt PWA, and the value PWAs bring to their users—the avid football fans—in the form of live clips and other goodies.

Get inspired and see how the NPFL delivers 41 progressive web apps (!) for all the clubs in the top two leagues in Norway, Eliteserien and OBOS-ligaen. No more app stores and native app development!

09:35
Tech: Behind the scenes of NPFL
by Egil Fujikawa Nes, Technical Architect @ Seeds Consulting

Egil will take you behind the scenes in this tech session and talk more about how the PWA was created and why PWA was the right choice for this project. He will also talk about what makes the PWA the application of the future.

Now, what challenges and results did this technology yield for the NPFL?
The existing native apps provided video clips from live matches when the user was connected to the local stadium WiFi, a feature that had to be transferred to the upcoming PWA solution. While the websites were based on the Enonic platform, the existing native apps used another CMS and lacked several integrations. This was neither user-friendly nor financially sound for the clubs.

The PWA technology has been present for years, but one major obstacle has stood in the way for a broad adaptation—Apple’s lack of support. However, the American tech giant changed its mind and brought iOS and macOS fully into the fray, enabling implementation on all the major platforms.

But the biggest challenge was to ensure that all the editorial and developmental work put into the existing platform by the different clubs could function with the new PWAs. The football clubs had spent years creating and managing content, and the NPFL tasked Seeds with developing a solution that would be both future-proof and taking the past into account—at the same time.

Enonic is used as the content platform—delivering important and much-needed fresh and timely content in the PWAs, while Seeds utilized parts of the Workbox PWA Starter and Google’s own PWA tools to build the specific progressive web app functionality.

If you are interested in knowing more about the benefits of PWA and whether you should implement it in your business or not, you definitely do not want to miss this.